Aaron Maté Discussed the Biden admin continuing to occupy Syria and concealing the real reasons for it with @SocialistMMA

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[What @aaronjmate says here about Syrian policy is true. And U.S. policy has been and is wrong, and un-Christian, I might add.]

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i haven’t confirmed this myself but i’ve
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heard from people and there are reports
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i mean i haven’t witnessed them myself
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but i’ve heard from people in their
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reports they have syrians protesting
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the u.s you know syrians in the region
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of northeast syria certainly they’ve
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been protests in other parts of the
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country but even syrians in the region
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where the us is occupying in the
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northeast protesting because one of the
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things that the u.s has done reportedly
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is arrest people who have been
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instrumental in fighting isis
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local people who you know helped win
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back their territory from isis which
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spread
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thanks to the us which basically
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created isis
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by going into
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iraq and all the um destruction there
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that led to isis and then we know by the
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way i quote this in the article there’s
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a clip of john kerry admitting in a
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leaked recording that when isis was
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spreading in syria
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the u.s sat back and watched and
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was watching isis grow and carrie’s
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words was watching isis
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uh going to damascus and kerry explained
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that we thought that this was
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threatening assad and we were willing to
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let this happen
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to let isis grow because we thought that
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it would put assad in a threatened
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position and force him into negotiating
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which is basically a euphemism for
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forcing assad to negotiate his way out
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of power so what kerry is basically
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saying was
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while we’re publicly claiming to fight
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isis and trying to destroy it we
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actually were sitting back and watching
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it grow
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and we’re letting it grow if that meant
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we could leverage its growth to oust
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assad so it was more and he even said he
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said the reason he even says the reason
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russia came into syria in 2015. the
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reason russia came in he says he says
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quote because they didn’t want a daesh
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government daesh being isis right so
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that’s why russia came in and so what
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kerry’s saying is is that the u.s unlike
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russia
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was presumably willing to risk a
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government
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if it could mean leveraging that risk to
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put pressure on assad and oust the
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sovereign syrian government that’s how
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cynical u.s policy is and so
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well media will cover this stuff like
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can you imagine like you always have
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those uh
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like gun-toting conservatives and where
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they have this extreme hatred for isis
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isis imagine how little of them actually
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know that we are complicit with growing
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isis in syria yeah yeah i mean the only
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guy in u.s political life who said it
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was donald trump when he he blurted out
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that uh the obama administration created
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isis and you know there was truth to
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what he was saying because obama you
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know um now of course it wasn’t just
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obama it was bush that launched the iraq
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war but
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obama with his policy in iraq and then
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with letting isis grow in syria there’s
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truth to that and that’s one of the
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reasons why trump was vilified by the
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national security state it’s not that
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they cared about trump being a racist
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or a uh greedy billionaire and all the
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other awful things about him he was a
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bad steward of the u.s empire he he said
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the wrong thing he spoke the truth
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sometimes so that’s why you know that
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that’s a big reason why we had
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russiagate is because
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they just you know he was not acceptable
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uh to run the show even when he went
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along with the empire so many times
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repeatedly to try to you know
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um
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uh
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to try to play along sometimes his just
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his outbursts were just too embarrassing
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wasn’t he on fox news and he was he he
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literally said the quiet part out loud
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where he was like we should be in syria
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because we won’t take the oil
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exactly so exactly so so to the official
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right so
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uh the the official rationale for u.s
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troops being in syria is that we’re
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there to fight isis and we’re that we’re
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there to help uh train our kurdish
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allies in fighting isis um but there’s a
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whole bunch of things wrong with that
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first of all as you point out
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trump and other officials have already
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told the truth that’s not why we’re
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there trump said it on fox news very
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very succinctly said they’re there to
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take the oil what that means is
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u.s officials want to steal syria’s oil
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not because the u.s needs syria’s oil or
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can do anything with it really but
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because syria needs its oil to function
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as a country
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and because syria defeated the u.s side
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in the dirty war so billions of dollars
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from the cia and saudi arabia qatar
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turkey and all the weapons in the world
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could not topple the syrian government
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so because that failed now we have to
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turn to plan b which is simply to
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strangle syria
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make it suffer into submission make the
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people suffer for the fact that their
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government beat the u.s it’s pretty much
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just sadism just because the us can do
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it and the oil
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is a big part of that because without
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syria’s own oil it can’t provide for its
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people it makes it very difficult and
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also in that northeast region where the
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us is staying is also the bulk of syria
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is wheat and so it can’t feed its own
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people and when i was there in syria i
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saw it there are bread lines and people
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are struggling a big reason for that is
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because the us is stealing the part of
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the region that produces their oil and
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wheat there’s also these murderous
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sanctions that prevent syria from
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importing
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food and medicine all the things that it
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needs and so trump laid it out on the
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oil when he said that on fox news but
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there’s another
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statement i quote in the article and
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this was first discovered by my grey’s
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own colleague ben norton from dana
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struhl who she is now a top a senior
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official under biden in the pentagon
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running the middle east for the pentagon
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but before that in 2019 she was co-chair
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of something called the syria study
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group which basically you know for um
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for congress writes up policy reports
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and policy recommendations
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for syria there’s a clip of her and it’s
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in my article where she explains
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basically what the us strategy is it’s
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very similar to trump
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she just says it in more in a more sort
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of
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you know in in the language of a
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diplomat but she spells out that the us
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being in syria means that the u.s quote
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owned one-third okay yeah like you want
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to play the foot yeah yeah
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yeah i’m gonna give the clip but let’s
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play this and see what exactly she says